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Citadel (hedge fund) openings in investment research, trading, and portfolio management (as of mid-Oct 2026). Citadel Securities is the separate market-making arm focused on systematic trading/quant research; it is not included here as it does not run traditional long/short or fundamental portfolios. Listings change frequently—check the official open roles page at citadel.com/careers/open-opportunities for the full current set. Links below go to the firm’s position details.
Equities – Citadel Associate Program – Full Time Program 2027 (US)
https://www.citadel.com/careers/details/equities-citadel-associate-program-full-time-program-2027-us/
New York; base $125k–$135k. This highly selective early-career program trains new graduates into associates on Citadel’s equities platform through modeling, company/industry research, data work, and pitching, with rotations and direct exposure to portfolio managers. It is explicitly designed as a pathway toward future portfolio manager roles rather than a pure research seat, combining classroom-style training with real investment process experience on one of the industry’s best-resourced long/short platforms.
Equities Investment Associate (Ashler Capital, Global Equities, Surveyor Capital)
https://www.citadel.com/careers/details/equities-investment-associate-ashler-capital-global-equities-surveyor-capital/
New York; base $150k–$175k. This is a fundamental bottoms-up long/short research role supporting analysts and portfolio managers: building detailed Excel models, covering companies and sub-sectors, generating and pitching long/short ideas, attending management meetings, and monitoring earnings. It requires prior IB, PE, long-only, or sell-side research experience and is structured as a stepping stone toward an Investment Analyst seat with greater idea ownership and risk-taking responsibility.
Commodities Portfolio Manager
https://www.citadel.com/careers/details/commodities-portfolio-manager/
Greenwich, Houston, London, Singapore. This senior role owns strategy development, portfolio construction, and risk for a commodity vertical, including identifying micro/macro opportunities, scaling risk-taking, and challenging consensus views. It demands prior commodities experience plus strong quantitative modeling skills (Python, VBA, Matlab) and is one of the clearer direct portfolio management openings currently listed, focused on building and running a dynamic book rather than supporting one.
Quantitative Trader: Equity Quantitative Research – University Graduate (US)
https://www.citadel.com/careers/details/quantitative-trader-equity-quantitative-research-university-graduate-us/
New York; base $235k–$300k. This seat on the Equity Quantitative Research (EQR) team optimizes systematic and semi-systematic equities strategies that trade billions daily: allocating capital and risk across signals, managing portfolio-level exposures in real time, partnering with researchers and engineers to productionize ideas, and continuously improving risk-adjusted returns. It suits quantitative backgrounds with strong optimization, decision-making, and market microstructure instincts and offers high ownership relative to typical junior quant trading roles.
Global Quantitative Strategies | Quantitative Researcher
https://www.citadel.com/careers/details/global-quantitative-strategies-quantitative-researcher/
New York, Hong Kong, Singapore; base $300k–$350k. GQS is Citadel’s core quantitative investing business. Researchers build predictive models, drive large-scale multi-asset portfolio optimization, and develop algorithms that identify opportunities across strategies. The role targets advanced-degree holders (physics, CS, math, statistics, engineering) with exceptional research records who want to apply quantitative techniques directly to investing rather than pure market-making.
Quantitative Researcher – Data Strategies Group
https://www.citadel.com/careers/details/quantitative-researcher-data-strategies-group/
New York; base $200k–$300k. DSG is a central quant research team focused on alternative data, AI/ML, and modeling noisy real-world datasets (sensor, unstructured event, high-frequency) to generate insights for investment teams across equities, commodities, fixed income, and macro. Researchers partner with portfolio managers and analysts to turn alternative data into decision-ready signals, emphasizing statistical inference, machine learning, and high-dimensional data expertise over pure trading.
Quantitative Researcher – PhD Graduate (US)
https://www.citadel.com/careers/details/quantitative-researcher-phd-graduate-us/
New York, Miami; base $225k–$300k. This is a core quant research role developing next-generation models and trading approaches: conceptualizing valuation strategies, improving mathematical models, translating algorithms into code, backtesting, and refining monetization of signals using unconventional data. It targets PhDs in highly quantitative fields with strong probability, statistics, machine learning, and research experience and feeds into the firm’s broader investment strategies.
For the complete and most current set (including additional quant research, trading, analyst, and internship roles), visit the official pages above or filter on citadel.com/careers. Compensation figures are posted base ranges; total pay includes discretionary incentives that are not disclosed.